(T)PRUT.

Many years ago I was reading a book about (I think) the Crusades in which there was a footnote mentioning a medieval exclamation of contempt, tprut, that turned up in a number of languages. I recently recalled this and thought I’d investigate; it turns out it’s in the OED:

And the Middle English Dictionary has an entry, with a remarkable variety of spellings: “prut, interj. Also ptrot, tprut, tprot, thprut, trupth, trut. [AL ptrut, phrut & OF trout, trut, tproupt, tropt.] An exclamation of contempt or disapproval; ~ for a fig for (sb. or sth.).” Their first cite is the same as the OED’s (with different punctuation); their next is from Harley’s “The Execution of Sir Simon Fraser” (quoted here): “Tprot, scot, for þi strif!/ hang vp þyn hachet ant þi knyf,” and there are several more. It’s a pity this savory ejaculation has fallen out of use. Anybody have other examples from medieval languages?

Not sure if that’s what you mean, but I have always been fascinated by the medieval Czech curse word / ejaculation “krleš”. I have encountered this word in various medieval writings, chronicles and such, where it was regarded as a some sort of magical incantation. Some authors would use it in the sense of “woe to me!”, some used it as a curse and some even as a substitute for “my God”. I was therefore a bit surprised when I found out that it’s actually a mutilated version of Greek “kyrie eleison” and it can be traced back to the 10th century Czech version of a litany entitled “Hospodine, pomiluj ny” (“Lord have mercy on us”). Full text: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospodine_pomiluj_ny

Prut is used in modern Dutch, and in various variants in various other Lowlands dialects, to refer to mud, coffee grounds and, by extension, to other filthy and unsuitable stuff. I think it’s the sound made by walking through deep mud, in which context the t-initials make sense. Here’s more: http://www.surfbirds.com/phorum/read.php?f=56&i=6473&t=6473 I think it turns up in C17th texts, but I can’t remember seeing it earlier

No but I once heard a commentator on a horse-jumping competition say someone had been “ejaculated” out of his seat!
I take it you’re not counting swear words used as exclamations like egad, zounds – although those may not be medieval anyway. How about “fie” and “tush”? I wonder how old the “bah” is in Dickens’ “bah humbug”. And what did people say before “wow” came into use?

RL Stevenson has this passage in his utterly charming “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes,” in which he relates his difficulties with Modestine, his donkey:
My deus ex machinâ, before he left me, supplied some excellent, if inhumane, advice; presented me with the switch, which he declared she would feel more tenderly than my cane; and finally taught me the true cry or masonic word of donkey-drivers, ‘Proot!’ All the time, he regarded me with a comical, incredulous air, which was embarrassing to confront; and smiled over my donkey-driving, as I might have smiled over his orthography, or his green tail-coat. But it was not my turn for the moment.

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-It’s a pity this savory ejaculation has fallen out of use. Anybody have other examples from medieval languages?-
Conmpletely agree. Isn’t amazing how we have become more and more intelligent and less and less colorful.

Don’t you think that when Father Adam told RL Stevenson to cry “Proot!” to urge Modestine to walk faster he was pulling the Englishman’s leg? “Prout” is French for “fart” and one’s donkey probably does plenty of it, the jet stream of the prout even helping the animal to advance. Perhaps when Stevenson later says “I prooted like a lion, I prooted mellifluously like a sucking-dove” he was letting on that he knew his leg had been pulled?

Contempt or disapproval. Another term for dishonoring in means or by the way someone tells Someone off that’s not how that’s done “I can only try to show you the right way it’s up to you if you honor the way I’m doing this”

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